Paul Bremer
Paul Bremer
Lewis Paul Bremer IIIis an American diplomat. He is best known for leading the occupational authority of Iraq following the 2003 invasion by the United States. He served in this capacity from May 11, 2003 until June 28, 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
abuse belonged billions dollars iraqi tragic waste
the tragic waste and abuse of billions of dollars that belonged to the Iraqi people.
asks government
If the provisional government asks us to leave, we will leave,
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The general referendum will be successful and the draft constitution ratified if a majority of the voters in Iraq approve and if two-thirds of the voters in three or more governorates do not reject it.
fbi guys scare trying
The FBI is after these guys because they know something or they are trying to scare them.
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He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.
iraqi lead opposed
We need experienced Iraqi commanders who can lead troops. Listen, I've always told you that I opposed disbanding the army.
attack detect iraqi stop supposed
There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
defeat
We have to do everything we can to defeat
confident full future iraq
I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.
certainly elections government job sovereign
It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed -- my job here will be done.
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The people who are attacking the coalition and who are trying to upset the security here are of course in the first instance attacking us. But in the end, they're really attacking the Iraqis, because they're really trying to undermine security, ... Security is the first and most important role of any government to its citizens.
loss numbers tragedy
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
years community looks
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
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Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.